French Minister of the Interior Brice Hortefeux and French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) president Mohammed Moussaoui have signed an agreement to better follow-up anti-Muslim acts and threats in France. 314 such acts were reported in 2009. Moussaoui called on the French to “combat together” this “menace against national cohesion.” Ironically, Hortefeux was fined…
The president of the CFCM (French Council of the Muslim Faith) Mohammed Moussaoui reminded the press that they are in favor of a possible law which would ban the burqa and niqab in France.
The Sorgues Mosque in the Vaucluse region was vandalized with racist inscriptions last Saturday evening. The vandalism follows a series of other French mosques vandalized this month. It is the sixth time this year that a French mosque has been tarnished by racist graffiti. President of the CFCM (French Council of the Muslim Faith) Mohammed…
Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), has critiqued the recent French national identity debate and its “political instrumentalization of the Muslim faith”. Moussaoui suggests that greater investigation into the “social and political roots” of assimilation in France would be more appropriate.
A prominent French group of imams is backing a possible ban on the burqa. “We support any law that bans the wearing of a face veil in France,” said Hassan Chalghoumi, Chairman of the Conference of French Imams. The imam group, launched last year, says it fully supports a legal ban, basing their stance on…
